Ok, my first major pot in a big tournament happened last night. I managed to get into the final table at PartyPoker $35K guaranteed freeroll for Scandinavian players. We made a deal at the final table and I got about $3200 for having over 1mil in chips, being on the 5th position.

I thought I got lucky at times but then again, I didn't take many chances. Below are my PT stats from about 495 hands during 6 hours of tournament play. Do those look fine to you for a 6-hour MTT? Do those stats reflect the style one should have in such a tournament?

VPIP = 13.33
Won T$ at SD = 90
PFR = 10.30
Att to steal blinds: 24.39
Total agression: 11.00
Won T$ WSF: 55.88

When folds hand:
Preflop: 84.44
Flop: 2.22
Turn: 0.61
River: 0.00

I'm a scandinavian and I'm always emberrased when I sit naked in saunas with beautiful blonde girls

Thanks guys. Ok, I summarized a table by levels, any comments on that?

Level / VPIP / PFR / AttToStealBlinds / Won$ATSD / Level Result
40/80: 23.53 / 0 / 0 / 100 / +590
60/120: 21.74 / 8.70 / 0 / 0 / +720
100/200: 17.24 / 13.79 / 0 / 0 / -50
200/400: 5.71 / 5.71 / 0 / 0 / +200
400/800: 18.92 / 18.92 / 33.33 / 100 / +16895
600/1200: 16.13 / 12.90 / 66.67 / 100 / +12957
800/1600: 13.33 / 13.33 / 66.67 / 50 / +1696
1200/2400: 16.67 / 4.17 / 0 / 50 / +19425
2000/4000: 20.00 / 16.00 / 0 / 0 / +10625
3000/6000: 7.32 / 7.32 / 0 / 0 / +4875
4000/8000: 7.96 / 7.96 / 20 / 0 / +2900
6000/12000: 13.79 / 10.34 / 50 / 100 / +114210
8000/16000: 6.67 / 6.67 / 100 / 0 / -2400
12000/24000: 3.7 / 3.7 / 0 / 0 / -15800
20000/40000: 12.12 / 12.12 / 0 / 100 / +163434
30000/60000: 16.67 / 16.67 / 16.67 / 0 / +248300
40000/80000: 20.00 / 13.33 / 0 / 100 / +504932

Hmm... I remember of looking at the average chip stack and was sometimes below it and sometimes above it, never very far though.

I don't think there is much sense in posting many individual hands as, if you noted from my initial post, I only went to showdown 10 times during the 6 hour tournament and won 9 of them. I don't think I could have maximized my winnings either as most of the hands ate up the villains whole stack or doubled mine. I looked through each winning hand and in each one of them, I simply started with the better hole cards and was not outdrawn. In one occasion I flopped a str8 and pushed out AA in the hole but that was the only time I started with the worse hand. Well, the AA shouldn't have limped in and let me see the flop and then call my all-in...

Here is the only hand that I lost at SD, but I don't think I could have played it much better. I think I more or less minimized my losses, or what do you think? (Sorry, no HTML posting allowed for me)

***** Hand History for Game 3826756873 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:21405268 Level:8 Blinds-Antes(600/1200-50) - Sunday, March 26, 17:51:33 ET 2006
Table $50K Scandinavian Freeroll(644302) Table #36 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: HERO ( $65633 )
Seat 5: hmmmm13 ( $31597 )
Seat 3: ranheru ( $66609 )
Seat 4: Mth12 ( $69678 )
Seat 7: lesamegirl ( $24553 )
Seat 8: buylando ( $25510 )
Seat 1: nila99 ( $30531 )
Seat 6: make100 ( $17096 )
Seat 9: Enowe ( $43902 )
Trny:21405268 Level:8
Blinds-Antes(600/1200-50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Kh Js ]
(...others fold...)
nila99 calls [600].
HERO raises [1800].
nila99 calls [1800].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, 8d, Ad ]
nila99 checks.
HERO bets [4000].
nila99 calls [4000].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
nila99 checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
nila99 bets [1200].
HERO calls [1200].
nila99 shows [ Th, Qs ] a straight, ten to ace.
HERO doesn't show [ Kh, Js ] two pairs, kings and jacks.
nila99 wins 16850 chips from the main pot with a straight, ten to ace.

I thought he got the flush on the turn and was trapping me so I checked but on the river he made it too cheap to call so I thought maybe he didn't have a flush but only a pair and called. And often I did raise from SB/BB with any semidecent hand to steal the bet from an individual limper and usually it worked. That was of course my intent here with the raise.[/b]

By the way, if someone is interested in looking through my whole hand history on this tournament and giving me feedback, I could email the two hand history files (total of 495 hands) as exported from PT. They could be examined very conveniently by importing them to PT:

Who knows, perhaps there could be something to learn for you as well... At least this was a pretty succesfull play, from 3500 players to 5. place, whether it be from luck or from good decisions.

The only thing I ask is that you would comment on my play and give at least me some feedback, perhaps on selected individual hands, play on a specific level or just of my style in general.

PM me if interested...